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Civil Engineer
Bureau of Reclamation · Posted 57 days ago
Hybrid Phoenix, AZ $126K – $189K Apply by Aug 13, 2026 Civil Engineering ESTJESTPINTJISTP Engineering
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You will serve as a Civil Engineer with Bureau of Reclamation, specializing in portfolio risk management and risk-informed decision making for high-hazard dams. You support dam safety policy, guidance development, mentoring, workload planning, new technologies, and modernization. You also represent Reclamation and Department Dam Safety Programs across government, industry, academia, and NSF research centers.
What You'll Do
- →Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Serves as the Dam Safety Office's senior risk management specialist for portfolio risk management and risk-informed decision-making, guiding methodologies, quality control, and long-range program planning.
- →Represents DOI and Reclamation in national and international dam safety communities.
- →Provides authoritative programmatic advice to senior DOI and Reclamation leaders on complex and controversial issues affecting dam safety, portfolio risk management as applied to risk management activities and risk reduction actions.
- →Leads the DOI Working Group on Dam Safety and Security, overseeing strategic planning, annual training development, interagency program improvements, and technical standards aligned with federal guidelines.
- →Provide collaboration and program leader support for dam safety governance, guidance development, staff mentoring, workload planning, application of emerging technologies, and modernization initiatives for multidisciplinary professionals supporting risk management and dam safety program priorities.
Requirements
- ✓Must provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- ✓Direct Deposit participation required.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
- ✓Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment.
- ✓Professional Engineer (PE) License Required As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest.
- ✓This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized.
- ✓In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓This position has a mandatory education requirement.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 1771b4e2-adc3-4f7f-88e3-6e4d4e6f9ecb
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